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"Home" isn't a place. It's people.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
I'm sneaking around behind my kid's back with his mother.
Christopher doesn't know?
I don't know what he knows. These kids sense things, right? The other day, I made her sneak out so he wouldn't see her there.
Trying to protect your kid. I mean, she ran out on him, right?
I ran out first. I ran out on both of them. See, when Christopher was first diagnosed I was in Afghanistan. Right at the end of my tour. Instead of going back home...I reenlisted. I told myself it was to pay the bills.
But you were running away, too.
Yeah. But I got to pretend like it was for a noble cause and serve my country. But when Shannon broke, nobody thought she was a hero. She just got called evil.
CChristopher
Dad, is Santa real?
Is Santa real? Why? Did someone say he wasn't? What do you think? Do you think he's real?
CChristopher
When you were gone, I asked Santa for you to come back, and you did.
When I was in Afghanistan? You know, buddy, Christmas wishes aren't like birthday wishes. Yeah. You can say them out loud and they'll still come true.
CChristopher
I asked him to find Mom. Will he?
He's sure gonna try.
You got your finger in the hole?
SCSergeant Clemens
That's what we're trained to do. I've seen it before, unfortunately.
Me, too. Where were you?
SSergeant
Leatherneck.
Ah. I was at Bagram.
SCSergeant Clemens
Army?
Uh-huh.
SCSergeant Clemens
Nobody's perfect.
This, right here, is your stop!
You're worried about tomorrow. Buck's first day back.
Well, he has signed every liability waiver and release form the department threw at him. Pretty sure we could drop a piano on Buck's head and he wouldn't be able to sue the city for it.
[jokingly] Is that something you planning on doing?
I don't know what I'm doing. Well, he just.....he doesn't think things through. He acts, reacts, and that leaves the rest of us to have to deal with the fallout.
Yeah, and the hurt feelings. Look, you are allowed to be angry with Buck and worried about this decision that he's made, but you care about the kid. Don't let the other stuff make you lose sight of that.
So that's how it's gonna be now. You're just gonna keep on ghosting me. 'Cause Halloween is over, just so you know.
I don't know what you want from me, Buck. Forgive, forget, make you feel better about what you did?
I just want you to talk to me. Even if it's just to say that you're still mad.
I'm not mad, I'm... When you decided to sue the department, to make Cap the bad guy, did you ever stop for a minute to think what that could do to us?
Look, I just needed my job back. I missed...I missed being here. Being part of the team. I never meant for anyone to get hurt.
Lotta "I"s in there. Your actions, your choices, they impact the rest of us. That's what it means to be a part of a team.
You're right. I didn't think about what could happen. I was mad at Bobby for not letting me back. I was mad at you guys for moving on without me. I was mad that there was nothing I could do about it. And I just...I just wanted to––
Punch someone?
Yeah, a little. But I get it. And I really am sorry. Whatever it takes for you to forgive me.
I forgive you. Also what it means to be part of a team. This...just don't do it again.
I guess it's like the uniform is my costume. You know, I put it on and suddenly I'm brave, and I'm strong, I make a difference. Feels like without it I'm not much of anything.
Buck, you saved two lives without the uniform. It's not a costume, it's who you are.
You claim you’re a good man, now. But Emmett was always a good man. Oh, he believed in second chances too. He’d be impressed with the life you’ve built. But you built it on the back of a dead man and I, for one, can’t get past that.
It's nothing. It's... I'm fine. Just needed a place to let off some steam. Things got a little out of––
Control? That's what this is about, right? You're the guy who always keeps it together, no matter what life throws at you. You shake it off, keep moving forward.
Lots of people have it worse.
Eddie, I just wanna make sure you don't think you have to lose everything...before you can allow yourself to feel anything.
No, Christopher needs me to be in control. I'm the only parent he's got left, and I can't let him down again.
When did you let him down before?
God, when did I not let him down? I wasn't there when he was a baby. Stayed away too long, and it broke his mother. Shannon ran away, I...and I couldn't stop her. I couldn't bring her back home. So I brought him here. And let her back into his life.
That's what Christopher wanted.
Yeah, but... but I knew better. She already left once, broke his heart. You know, I was so afraid she was gonna do it again. She did.
She died, Eddie.
Yeah, after she told me she wanted...a divorce. And I'm...I'm still mad. How stupid is that? I'm angry at a dead person and at myself because I forgave her...for everything, and...and it wasn't enough. I wasn't enough.
Self-driving cars, smart homes, robot labor. I'm telling you, Hen, the future is here and it is terrifying.
Guys, I... I found it. [looks excitedly at the meteor inside the hole] All the way from outer space. Should I grab it?
Doesn't belong to you, Buck.
It belongs in a museum.
It's not normal, right? I have these moments that are good. We save someone from dying, my kid does something awesome. It's moments where I should be happy or proud or both. I know that. Just don't feel it.
FFrank
There's no one right way to deal with trauma. All the first responders I counsel process it differently.
[...]
And yet you all ask the same questions and press the same buttons. I mean, this is my third session...
FFrank
You're not finding therapy helpful?
I used to. After Doug died, I did it all: talk therapy, group therapy, cognitive processing. Spent six months just talking about my feelings.
FFrank
I'm sorry none of it helped you.
What makes you think it didn't?
FFrank
'Cause you're sitting in that chair.
I remember the drama when my sister was applying to college. Think that's half the reason why I decided to join the army.
Well, you tell a 17-year-old kid that their future depends on writing 600 perfect words, the pressure's gonna get to 'em.
I don't remember what my college essay was about.
Why don't you call Maddie and ask her what she wrote for you?
It got ugly. After I said I had to work on Christmas, he went straight to his room and wouldn't speak to me for the rest of the night.
Mm. It's just new. He'll get over it.
Abuela's bringing him to my aunt's. I know he's gonna have a great time. He just–– Last Christmas was...special. This one's harder.
Uh-huh. Is that why you invited us all here? Trying to cram in as much Christmas cheer between now and then?
Well, thought it'd be nice to bring the boys together for a play date.
All three of 'em.
[Hen and Eddie look over at Buck enthusiastically helping Denny and Christopher make their gingerbread houses.]
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